FAQs

Where are you located?

4411 Montrose Blvd. Suite 200
Houston, TX 77006

On Montrose between Richmond Ave and Highway 59 in the heart of Houston’s Museum District

What is Concrete Painting?

The Concrete painting movement finds its roots in early Modernism in works by De Stijl artist Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. Theo van Doesberg first defined the movement saying Art, should receive nothing from Nature’s formal properties or from sensuality or sentimentality. We want to exclude lyricism, dramaticism, symbolism, etc. The picture should be constructed entirely from purely plastic elements, that is to say planes and colours. A pictorial element has no other significance that ‘itself’ and therefore the picture has no other significance than ‘itself.’ (20th-Century Index, Dr. Michael Delahoyde)

The movement grew with Brice Marden and Mark Rothko. It continues still with American painter Robert Ryman. Joseph Marioni is a disciple of Ryman. Danielle Frankenthal is a disciple of Marioni, and so the legacy continues. Wade Wilson Art’s September 2006 exhibit, Color--Drawing and Painting, focuses on the underlying tension that often exists in painting between use of line and color. Philosophically, mark-making in Frankenthal’s paintings differs greatly from the veils of pure color that dominate Marioni’s paintings. Both artists embrace tenets of the Concrete painting movement, yet each articulate those tenets in their own particular vocabulary.

Who are the gallery’s concrete artists?

The painters include Joseph Marioni, Danielle Frankenthal, Alan Ebnother, John Zurier, and Shawn Wallis. WWA’s concrete photographer is Jennah Ward, whose images will be the focus of the gallery’s FOTOFest 2008 exhibit.

Is Concrete the only type of work the gallery exhibits?

Not at all. We also exhibit paintings by New York artists Jilll Moser, Stephen Westfall and Mark Williams. British artist Lucinda Cobley exhibits her paintings with us along with German artist Gunther Holder and French-born German artist Thomas Vinson. Wade Wilson Art also exhibits the work of Cuban-born artist Maria Elena Gonzalez as well as New Mexico artist Tom Berg. The gallery also shows Texas artists Steven Murphy and James Woodson.

What is the gallery’s policy on artist submissions?

Wade Wilson Art does not review unsolicited submissions.  For more information, please contact Jennifer Vickers at jennifer@wadewilsonart.com.